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William James Cecil – grave tales

17/12/2022 By Moya Sharp 1 Comment

This wonderful photograph was taken at the rear of the ‘Fancy Goods Depot’ at 65 Bayley Street, Coolgardie. In the photograph are Annie Cecil, William James ‘Jim’ Cecil, and their two sons Clyde and Les Cecil. The photograph was taken in 1906 by Jack Bayley who was Annie’s Brother-in-law. The family ran this store for […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

John H M Johannesen – grave tales

19/11/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

John Helge Martin Johannesen . He was born ion the 7th Dec 1866 in Frue Sogn, Aarhus, Denmark. He was the son of Carl Emil JOHANNESEN (1852-1953) and Sofie nee SVENSDATTER and was the oldest of 10 children to the couple. He died at the Coolgardie Government Hospital on the 12th October 1912 from Pulmonary […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Places & Towns Tagged With: Australian History, Coolgardie, Goldfields History, Western Australia

A Playground of Death – grave tales

12/11/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

After living in Kalgoorlie-Boulder for many years, and talking to lots of people about what they did as youngsters and what games they played. I was told, that although playing on the slime dumps and near mine shafts was ‘strictly forbidden’ just about everyone did it. If their parents had know what they got up […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Goldfields History, Kalgoorlie boulder, Western Australia

Current Cue Cemetery – beyond the white gate

05/11/2022 By Moya Sharp 7 Comments

As promised (albeit two weeks late!) the following is the end result of a research project bravely taken on in the last 18 months by John Pritchard whose help I find invaluable. He took the ‘basic’ cemetery record for the Cue Cemetery which consisted mostly of a name, date & denomination and he has made […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Cue, Day Dawn, Goldfields History

Cue Cemetery and Help Arrives

15/10/2022 By Moya Sharp Leave a Comment

Next week will be published the finished first draft (is it ever finished?) of the Cue Cemetery Burial Register. For the last 18 months John Pritchard and I have been working on an upgrade of the Cue Cemetery records. Not being happy with just a name and a date, John proceeded to try find out […]

Filed Under: Grave Tales, People, Towns and Places Tagged With: Australian History, Cemeteries, Cue, Goldfields History, Western Australia

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